April 20, 2006

Checking In

Sorry guys, I'm taking a hiatus from blogging to work on a portfolio and hopefully score some gainful employment. I'll be back soon.

Quick update on It's Something Special: Color correction is finished, and since I've decided to run with the sound mix I've already got this movie's not going to get any more ready for screening. To that end, I'm considering putting it online for download. I'll run a compression and see if I can get the film under 100 MB while hopefully keeping it from looking too shitty. I'll let everyone know once I get this all worked out.

Incidentally, I've been using my living room TV to do color correction, and just for the hell of it thought I'd run some web video on there to see what it looks like. I was impressed with the result – most web video, assuming it's of a halfway decent quality, looks pretty damn good on a plain old CRT television screen, even at full-screen resolution. I don't know if that says more about the ability of online video to compress and distribute a decent quality image, or about the ability of a standard-definition television to degrade that image enough to fool you into thinking it looks better than it really does. It's probably the latter. Nevertheless, I think it's neat.

Finally, I present your nauseatingly cute Dogblogging photos for the month of April. This month: special San Diego edition.




AWWWWWWWW.

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April 03, 2006

Yay for Baseball

For those of you who don't follow baseball, opening day was yesterday. For those of you who do (anybody?), here are my postseason predictions:

NL West: LA Dodgers
NL Central: St. Louis Cardinals
NL East: Atlanta Braves
NL Wild Card: Philadelphia Phillies

AL West: Oakland Athletics
AL Central: Minnesota Twins
AL East: NY Yankees
AL Wild Card: Boston Red Sox

NLCS: Phillies over Braves
ALCS: A's over Yankees

World Series: A's over Phillies

Yup, this is Oakland's year. For the record, I think the Giants will finish fourth in the NL West.

Speaking of the Giants, I'm currently reading Game of Shadows, the controversial new book from the SF Chronicle journalists who uncovered the BALCO steroids scandal. It's a great read, extremely well written in a narrative style and meticulously researched. Most compelling is the way the authors set up Barry as a figure straight out of a Greek tragedy; I can't read about him sulking around the clubhouse, the narcissistic superstar playing only for his own sense of pride, without thinking of mighty Achilles brooding in a tent somewhere outside Troy. I have a feeling that both fans and non-fans alike can find something worthwhile about this book, so check it out if you get the chance.

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Springtime in SF

It's that that time of year again.

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